Japan's earthquake in March is set to make 2011 the costliest year to date for natural disasters, reinsurer Munich Re said on Tuesday, although the number of deaths globally is relatively low so far.
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Jul 12, 2011
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Japan's seismologists were so entrenched in outdated beliefs about seismic hazard that they became blinkered to the risk of the March 11 mega-quake, a commentary in a top science journal charged on Wednesday.
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Apr 13, 2011
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Amid all the commentary focused on the historic tragedy in Haiti, a tough but important fact has gone virtually unmentioned, according to a nationally recognized expert on disasters at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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Feb 1, 2010
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Most earthquakes occur along fault lines, which form boundaries between two tectonic plates. As the relative speed of the plates around a fault increases, is there a corresponding increase in the number of earthquakes produced ...
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Dec 4, 2009
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The Seismological Lab at the University of Nevada, Reno is finishing the first phase of seismic surveying through downtown as part of U.S. Geological Survey study to create an earthquake hazard map in the Reno-Carson City ...
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Jun 16, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The New Madrid fault system does not behave as earthquake hazard models assume and may be in the process of shutting down, a new study shows.
Earth Sciences
Mar 13, 2009
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New hazard maps for communities from San Jose to Palo Alto in Northern California delineate the probability of earthquake-induced liquefaction, based on three scenarios: a magnitude 7.8 on the San Andreas Fault comparable ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 27, 2009
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